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Beam Inc (BEAM): Today's Featured Food & Beverage Winner

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Beam (
BEAM) pushed the Food & Beverage industry higher today making it today's featured food & beverage winner. The industry as a whole was unchanged today. By the end of trading, Beam rose 99 cents (1.6%) to $62.97 on average volume. Throughout the day, 858,996 shares of Beam exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 890,700 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $61.97-$63.05 after having opened the day at $62 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $61.98. Other companies within the Food & Beverage industry that increased today were:
Dole Food (
DOLE), up 9.6%,
Crumbs Bake Shop (
CRMB), up 6.9%,
Origin Agritech (
SEED), up 6.5%, and
Chiquita Brands International (
CQB), up 6.2%.

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Beam Inc. produces and sells branded distilled spirits products worldwide. Beam has a market cap of $9.77 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 27, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 0.5% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are six analysts that rate Beam a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and three rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Beam as a
buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, expanding profit margins, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, solid stock price performance and impressive record of earnings per share growth. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.